Unexpected Wine Cellar

(EP 54) Five minutes of real-life American English to train your listening while you have fun! In this episode we visit a private wine cellar in an exclusive beach community near Los Angeles. Transcription here --> *** [INTRO] *** OK so I'm here with my friend Mike at his house in Manhattan Beach and… could you tell us where we are standing right now? We are standing in a prime wine cellar. This is a wine cellar, I want to tell you, I am in a wine cellar. How many bottles of wine have we got in this wine cellar? We’ve got about seven hundred on the rack and there's another, probably, three hundred sitting in cases. So we're talking about a thousand bottles. A thousand bottles. All right, and can you give us just an idea what kind of wine you've got here? Well I’ve got the two racks of Kurt’s (his son) and then I’ve got 3 - 4 racks here which are Pinot Noir, no, no Zinfandels and I’ve got two racks of Pinot Noir and I’ve got all the rest are Cabernet. I’m a big Cabernet guy.** So we're talking a couple hundred bottles of Cabernet. Easily. Probably 500. Where do you, where do you acquire this wine? Well, I work with Kurt. He’ll order a bottle of wine, and we’ll taste it when it comes in, and if it tastes good, he’ll order me a case of it. OK, so you, so you research the wine, you read, you read about the wine and then you get yourself a bottle…. Preferably Napa Valley, Sonoma… So what percentage of your wines in here are California wines? Probably seventy percent. 70% are California, and the rest? The rest are right behind here they are Bordeaux and they're drinking OK, they are “2000”, so that's 20 years old and it, uh, it taste OK, but it's nothing compared to our red wines from Napa. Tell me this, what is the most, let's call it the most valuable bottle you’ve got in here. Not very expensive, the most expensive one is on the top. Those are probably $250 bottles, two hundred and fifty bucks a bottle. About $250 per bottle, and how long will they be sitting here? Probably I'll be dead by the time they are ripe. (laughter Oh, the son will be drinking the, because.. (hahha) OK well, thanks for the tour and thanks for listening. *** [OUTRO} Thank you for supporting the podcast by telling friends and sharing this link--> https://linktr.ee/unexpectedenglish * Idiom note: You can say a person is "big on" something (or an activity) to mean they enjoy it a lot or promote it. Here we see a variation. Mike is "a big Cabernet guy" - he loves Cabernet!